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Antique silver appraisals in North Carolina for donations, estate tax, divorce, and probate, prepared in accordance with USPAP and IRS requirements. AppraiseItNow appraises sterling flatware, silver hollowware, coin silver, antique silverplate, and decorative silver objects across North Carolina, including Charlotte, Raleigh, and Asheville.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT ANTIQUE SILVER APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, NORTH CAROLINA COURTS, LENDERS, INSURERS, AND MORE.
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Owner & CEO
Joe founded AppraiseItNow to make a certified, USPAP-compliant appraisal as simple to order as anything else online. A former Bain & Company strategy consultant, Joe leads the entire team and specializes in strategy, growth, and the firm's tech capabilities.
Personal Property Appraiser
ISA Accredited Member with 30 years in the trade, from running estate sales and an auction gallery to appraising luxury apparel, furniture, artwork, antiques, and business assets, primarily for IRS tax filings.
Machinery & Equipment Appraiser
Third-generation auctioneer and CAGA Certified Appraiser with more than 20 years valuing machinery, equipment, vehicles, business assets, and estates for banks, attorneys, and trustees across the Carolinas.
Personal Property Appraiser
ISA Accredited Member specializing in Asian art, with a Master's from SOAS and a Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art. Ashley chairs the ISA's Antiques, Furnishings, and Decorative Arts committee and appraises for charitable donation, insurance, and equitable distribution.
Client Success Manager
Manages each engagement from the first enquiry to the delivered report, and keeps you posted at every step along the way.
International Society of AppraisersAccredited Member
Certified Appraisers Guild of AmericaCertified Appraiser
The Appraisal FoundationAuthorized by Congress as the source of appraisal standardsAppraiseItNow appraises antique silver in North Carolina for probate inventories, charitable gifts, equitable distribution, and insurance schedules. The reading starts with the marks: a maker, a town, an assay or pseudo mark, a pattern name and a date letter where one survives, and then the weight of what is actually silver.
Marks
British assay marks, American maker stamps, coin silver touchmarks and retailer names each point at a separate body of sale records. We follow the mark to the right market and price against what sold inside it.
Weight
Steel blades, filled handles, weighted bases and wooden insulators come out before anything is priced by weight. Skipping that step is the quickest route to a figure that collapses the first time somebody checks it.
Pattern and maker
A sought pattern by a known maker and a plain service of the same weight sit a long way apart. Rarity, how complete the service is and the run of serving pieces decide whether a set sells as a set or as metal.
Condition
Resoldered handles, plate worn through to the base metal, removed or added monograms and bowl wear on spoons each move the number. Those findings are recorded with the adjustment they caused rather than buried in one conclusion.
A single chest of flatware answers to more than one figure. The standard and the effective date get settled first, because together they decide which sales count as evidence at all.
Probate and division
An estate takes the value on the day the owner died and a property division takes it as of separation, so one service can carry two defensible figures inside a year. Antique furniture usually turns up in the same file.
Scheduling
Insuring a service takes what replacing each piece would cost through the dealers who really carry it, which sits well above what a seller would net. Insure off a resale number and the shortfall only surfaces once a claim is filed, which is the one moment nobody can fix it.
Silver sits in two places in North Carolina law at the same time: as a metal whose value is its content, and as a made object. Which side a piece falls on changes the tax on a sale and what a buyer is allowed to do next.
Sales tax
Fabricated metal
What the bullion exemption leaves out
North Carolina exempts sales of non-coin currency, investment metal bullion and investment coins. Investment metal bullion means an elementary precious metal put through a process of smelting or refining, in a state or condition where its value depends upon its content and not upon its form, and the term does not include fabricated precious metal that has been processed or manufactured for one or more specific and customary industrial, professional or artistic uses. A sterling tea service is fabricated for an artistic use, so it falls outside the exemption that would cover the bar it could be melted into.
Selling to a dealer
7 days
A dealer has to hold what it buys
No item included in a dealer purchase may be sold, traded or otherwise disposed of, melted, cut or otherwise changed in form, nor removed from the licensed premises, for a period of seven days from the date the transaction was reported. The clock runs from the report rather than from the handshake, which means a seller with second thoughts, or an heir who turns up late, has a window in which the pieces still exist as pieces. A written value obtained before the sale is what makes that window worth anything.
What North Carolina clients say we are known for
Across 23 published North Carolina appraisal reviews, every one from a client who paid AppraiseItNow for an appraisal, the three things they raise most often are that they would hire us again, how much research is visible in the report, and how quickly we answer.
AppraiseItNow Inc. is the best company I was lucky to find by accident. I was looking for someone to appraise cabinets for a donation to charity. I asked for multiple referrals, called multiple appraisal services, etc., and no one could help me. I found AppraiseItNow and from the moment I started working with them, they were wonderful! Joe guided me on what I needed to send him, what needed to be done and stayed in touch with me the entire time. Their customer service is OUTSTANDING and a welcome surprise in today’s world where good customer service is an anomaly! They returned an appraisal in a timely manner, it was clear, concise, cost-effective and exactly what I needed. They followed up with me multiple times to ensure that I received it and everything was OK. My CPA is also thrilled to have them as an accredited appraisal service he can use for other clients. I rarely leave reviews, but I could not pass giving them 5 stars and I’d give 10 if possible! THANK YOU JOE AND ALL AT APPRAISEITNOW!!👊🏼
Personal Property Appraisal for Charitable Donation
I used AppraiseItNow for the first time last month and I was extremely pleased with the results. I needed an appraisal done for insurance purposes and the level of detail about each of my antique furniture pieces was thorough and very helpful in my being able to get the highest amount possible from my insurance company for the antique items that were damaged. I could see that they spent time making sure that the information she included was correct and current for my antique furniture items in the current market. The team responded to my emails timely to answer any questions I had. I would highly recommend Appraise It Now to get a thorough and professional appraisal done on antique items. I do intend to use them again for other antique furniture and jewelry that I have. Job well done! 😃🤗
Antique Furniture Appraisal for Insurance Claim
It is a pleasure to work with Joe and his team. They communicate every step along the way and made the process simple for us to have more than 35 firearms appraised. It was all done in a timely manner and the final report is easy to understand. I highly recommend their services.
Gun Appraisal for Probate
I was skeptical at first, but the company exceeded all of my expectations. The team responded quickly to every question, and the service was excellent. They’re now my go to source for my collection. I’ve used them twice already, and I plan to use them several more times.
Firearms Appraisal for Personal Use
Joe made the process to have my piece of furniture appraised extremely easy, efficient and quick. My experience was great and I'd recommend AppraiseItNow to anyone looking for an appraisal.
Furniture Appraisal for Insurance Coverage
I asked AppraiseItNow to value a piece of sports memorabilia for purposes of a charitable donation. The item is rarely sold. Their research unearthed an important recent sale of a similar item, which I had not found previously, and which the first appraiser I used had not found either. AppraiseItNow was a good deal more expensive than the first service, but they crafted a detailed report in which I have much more confidence. They also helped me make sure the correct tax forms are used. Thank you!
Sports Memorabilia Appraisal for Charitable Donation
Given the USPAP-compliant nature of AppraiseItNow’s appraisal reports, we prepare our deliverables for major legal, tax, and financial reporting purposes for individual and commercial clients.
Popular uses of our appraisal reports include:
When pieces are common, damaged, or stylistically out of favor. Melt value sets the floor, and heavy wear, missing pieces from a service, or repairs push value toward it; rare patterns, famous silversmiths, and museum-quality objects command collectible premiums well above metal content.
Pricing plate as sterling and weighing non-silver components. Silver plate carries only a thin coating and should not be valued by weight, and steel knife blades or filled handles must be deducted; skipping those steps produces inflated numbers that fail under scrutiny.
Under equitable distribution, with marital property valued as of the date of separation by default. A documented fair market value appraisal of flatware, hollowware, or a collection gives the court a defensible basis for allocating it.
Not for personal use. Silver held as non-business property, used for purposes other than producing income, is excluded under G.S. 105-275(16). Silver held by a dealer, auction house, or other business must be listed with the county assessor during the January listing period and appraised at true value.
Through an unusually strong regional auction market. Houses such as Leland Little in Hillsborough and Brunk in Asheville catalog silver as a dedicated category, selling American coin silver, Southern regional pieces, and European sterling. Those realized prices supply in-state comparables that strengthen an appraisal's market evidence.
